Last Sunday, a young mother from Indianapolis, Indiana, Jessica Doty Whitaker, was shot to death after allegedly getting into an argument about Black Lives Matter and language.
The incident started &#8220;with an argument over Black Lives Matter and language,&#8221; according to the victim&#8217;s family, <a href="https://fox59.com/news/crimetracker/indy-mother-becomes-2nd-homicide-along-downtown-canal-in-1-week/">Fox 59</a> reported. &#8220;Eventually the two sides separated and walked away from each other, until witnesses claim the killer opened fire from a nearby bridge and ran away.&#8221;
Fiancé Jose Ramirez, who was with Doty Whitaker, 24, at the canal at the time of the incident, told the news station, “It was squashed and they went up the hill and left we thought, but they were sitting on St. Claire waiting for us to come under the bridge and that’s when she got shot.&#8221;
Ramirez says he fired back but did not hit anyone.
<a href="https://www.bellmortuary.com/obituary/Jessica-Doty-Whitaker?fbclid=IwAR10o7x8-xwj_cwHhQe2DsrCU3cFy2iqJ7RcuJAt7iBvo-HvvqEbkg2bFNw">Robert J. Doty</a>, the victim&#8217;s father, told reporter <a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/young-white-mother-killed-black-lives-matter-mob-allegedly-saying-lives-matter-national-media-fully-ignores/?utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_campaign=websitesharingbuttons">Cassandra Fairbanks</a> that his daughter told the Black Lives Matter supporters that &#8220;All Lives Matter.&#8221;
The Daily Wire spoke to Mr. Doty to confirm. &#8220;Yes that is accurate,&#8221; Doty said when asked if his daughter said &#8220;all lives matter&#8221; during the argument about BLM.
Doty added that he &#8220;just wants justice&#8221; for his daughter.
Taking to Facebook, the grieving father showed off a tattoo of his daughter&#8217;s name on his back, which he got days after her murder.
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“She shouldn’t have lost her life. She’s got a 3-year-old son she loved dearly,” a tearful Ramirez told Fox 59. “It’s hard to tell him his mom is in heaven and if you want to talk to her you have to look up and say, ‘I love you mom.'&#8221;
“We’re going through a lot,&#8221; the fiancé added. &#8220;The 3-year-old boy doesn’t even understand really. I just want justice for Jessica and her son and her family.”
The victim&#8217;s grandfather posted to &#8220;Facebook that &#8216;multiple black assailants&#8217; shot her in the head,&#8221; Fairbanks reported.
&#8220;Why isn&#8217;t anybody outraged about this?&#8221; the grandfather asked. &#8220;Is it that BLM was involved or that it was white young adults that [were] the victims?&#8221;
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A week before Doty Whitaker&#8217;s death, two were shot along the same canal, including a 14-year-old black boy who was killed during an armed robbery, according to Fox 59.
Still, MPD Capt. Jerry Leary says the &#8220;canal is still a safe [place] to go.&#8221;
“Just recently the DMD is hiring two overtime officers to work the canal during those times nightly,” Leary said. “A combination of all those efforts we hope is going to make a difference and it can’t help to.”
The victim&#8217;s killer remains at large.
Police are asking citizens with any information concerning the incident to contact Crime Stoppers at 317-262-TIPS.
A <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/jessica-whitaker">GoFundMe</a> for the victim has been set up by Macie Dunn; The Daily Wire was able to confirm the account via the victim&#8217;s father Robert Doty.
&#8220;Jessica, was a wonderful mother, sister, daughter, fiancée, friend, aunt, cousin [and] coworker,&#8221; the GoFundMe reads. &#8220;Loved by many and will [surely] be missed by many.&#8221;
&#8220;She made sure everyone around her was happ[y],&#8221; the post says, &#8220;&#8230; She does not deserve this. She has passed away on July 5th, 2020 around 3:30 [a.m.]. She was walking the downtown canal with her fiancée a Friend and his girlfriend. And was shot.&#8221;
&#8220;We are asking for you to donate whatever you can to help our family give her the most beautiful service she deserves. Also to help with the beautiful son she left behind. That was her pride and joy . WE LOVE YOU JESSIE ❤WE ARE THANKFUL.&#8221;
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Young Mother Shot To Death After Telling BLM Supporters ‘All Lives Matter,’ Family Says

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On Thursday evening, the death of 24-year-old Robert Fuller was officially ruled a suicide, following weeks of social media outcry and protesting demanding &#8220;justice&#8221; for Fuller, who was rumored to have been the victim of a racist lynching.
Fuller was tragically found hanging from a tree in a Southern California park on June 10. According to Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;s Department Cmdr. <a href="//abc7.com/society/officials-rule-robert-fuller-death-suicide/6309572/">Chris Marks</a>, the young man had a history of mental illness.
&#8220;There were no signs of a struggle. No defensive wounds observed, and no other signs of trauma visible to Mr. Fuller,&#8221; said Marks during a press conference, adding, &#8220;The DNA results were returned from the ligatures and the fingernails of Mr. Fuller. The quantitative results for each tested sample indicated that the predominant contributor for each sample belonged to Mr. Fuller.&#8221;
Marks also outlined three hospitalizations of Fuller since 2017 in which the young man &#8220;told doctors he was considering taking his life,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.dailynews.com/2020/07/09/authorities-say-death-of-robert-fuller-was-a-suicide/">Los Angeles Daily News</a> reported.
Last November, Marks said, Fuller &#8220;disclosed that he did have a plan to kill himself&#8221; while he was being treated for depression. Additionally, Fuller “allegedly tried to light himself on fire&#8221; during a February incident, which was investigated by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LosAngeles?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LosAngeles</a> county sheriff’s office and medical examiner made a official statement on the death of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RobertFuller?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RobertFuller</a>. He was found hanging from a tree June 10, in Palmdale, CA. Authorities officially rule the death a suicide. RIP Robert Fuller 🙏 <a href="https://t.co/LqyUpUJsMp">pic.twitter.com/LqyUpUJsMp</a>
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In the wake of Fuller&#8217;s death, protests against racism erupted and accusations of foul play were suggested.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) posted a report on Fuller&#8217;s death and demanded further investigation. &#8220;Robert Fuller&#8217;s family and the entire Palmdale community deserve answers,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;There must be further investigation.&#8221;
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Robert Fuller&#39;s family and the entire Palmdale community deserve answers. There must be further investigation. <a href="https://t.co/G6kyAKMOyt">https://t.co/G6kyAKMOyt</a>
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Musical talent Jaden Smith posted, &#8220;JUSTICE FOR ROBERT FULLER!!!&#8221;
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JUSTICE FOR ROBERT FULLER!!!
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The incident also sparked protests in the area.
&#8220;Palmdale residents have been grappling with the death of 24-year-old Robert Fuller, a Black man found hanging from a tree in the California city earlier this month,&#8221; a Morning Edition report said. &#8220;The community&#8217;s decades of entrenched racism have fueled the outcry.&#8221;
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Palmdale residents have been grappling with the death of 24-year-old Robert Fuller, a Black man found hanging from a tree in the California city earlier this month.
The community&#39;s decades of entrenched racism have fueled the outcry: <a href="https://t.co/ktAtH0q7p2">https://t.co/ktAtH0q7p2</a> <a href="https://t.co/vrhjlKvCyP">pic.twitter.com/vrhjlKvCyP</a>
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City officials in Palmdale, California, said they support calls for an independent investigation into the death of Robert Fuller, a black man whose death was deemed a suicide after he was found hanging from a tree in a public square this week <a href="https://t.co/df9fHu4SNH">https://t.co/df9fHu4SNH</a>
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Actor Damon Gupton suggested Fuller was the victim of a racism lynching, invoking the term &#8220;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Fruit">strange fruit</a>.&#8221;
&#8220;While people &#8216;celebrate&#8217; America today with the rah rah cis boom bah, I find myself remembering Robert Fuller found hanging from a tree 51 minutes from where I live three weeks ago,&#8221; he wrote on Independence Day. &#8220;Strange fruit.&#8221;
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While people “celebrate” America today with the rah rah cis boom bah, I find myself remembering Robert Fuller found hanging from a tree 51 minutes from where I live three weeks ago. Strange fruit. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/america?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#america</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/independenceday2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#independenceday2020</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/unsolvedmysteries?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#unsolvedmysteries</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackLivesStillMatter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BlackLivesStillMatter</a>
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American rapper Russ seemingly promoted racial ties to Fuller&#8217;s death, as did government-subsidized NPR.
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RIP ROBERT FULLER <a href="https://t.co/Ku7VwuV07J">https://t.co/Ku7VwuV07J</a>
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Robert Fuller was found hanging from a tree in Palmdale, Calif., this month. Many are skeptical his death was a suicide.
For decades, neo-Nazis and skinheads have been a threat in the area—linked to hate crimes including the firebombing of a Black church.<a href="https://t.co/PYTHG8vnYk">https://t.co/PYTHG8vnYk</a>
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A <a href="https://www.change.org/p/los-angeles-sheriff-s-department-palmdale-station-justice-for-robert-fuller?recruiter=592769966&amp;utm_source=share_petition&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&amp;utm_term=psf_combo_share_abi&amp;recruited_by_id=f53631e0-7154-11e6-81ca-0df1c57dd557">Change.org petition</a> signed by nearly 900,000 people calling for &#8220;justice for Robert Fuller&#8221; said the 24-year-old might have been the victim of a lynching.
On Friday, Daily Wire columnist and podcast host Matt Walsh highlighted how the tragedy of Fuller&#8217;s death was exploited by some on the Left.
&#8220;The sad case of Robert Fuller is instructive,&#8221; Walsh wrote in a series of posts. &#8220;He was a depressed and suicidal man who had been hospitalized three times for suicidal thoughts and had attempted suicide at least once recently. But when he was found hanging his family insisted that he wouldn&#8217;t have killed himself.&#8221;
&#8220;The media and Democrats jumped in, grotesquely exploiting his death by openly speculating that he might have been lynched. He wasn&#8217;t. It was an obvious case of suicide. No signs of struggle. No sign that anything happened against his will. He used his EBT card to buy the rope,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The very idea that a man might have been lynched in public with no witnesses, nothing on video, no evidence left behind, was always patently ridiculous. Some people in the mob might have been dumb enough to really believe it, but the media and elected Dems knew better.&#8221;
Still, Democrats and their allies in the mainstream media, argued Walsh, &#8220;were happy to exploit this tragic situation for their own ends. They are so desperate to support their narrative of America as a racist and oppressive country that they will even swoop down like vultures on the dead body of a suicidal man. These are truly evil people.&#8221;
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The media and Democrats jumped in, grotesquely exploiting his death by openly speculating that he might have been lynched. He wasn&#39;t. It was an obvious case of suicide. No signs of struggle. No sign that anything happened against his will. He used his EBT card to buy the rope.
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1281576720282329088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2020</a></blockquote>
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They were happy to exploit this tragic situation for their own ends. They are so desperate to support their narrative of America as a racist and oppressive country that they will even swoop down like vultures on the dead body of a suicidal man. These are truly evil people.
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1281576721981071361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Black Man Found Dead Hanging From Tree, Sparking Protests, Lynching Claims, Ruled A Suicide

Fox News host Tucker Carlson highlighted a new <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/seattle-interrupting-whiteness-training">report</a> from City Journal this week that alleged the City of Seattle sent an email last month inviting &#8220;white City employees&#8221; to attend a training session titled “Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness,” which was reportedly designed to make white employees examine their “complicity in the system of white supremacy.”
Carlson ran a segment on Thursday night about the alleged incident, noting how there would be national outrage if another race of people were selected for this type of training and encouraging people to push back on this &#8220;purest kind of race hate.&#8221;
&#8220;Imagine if the conservatives who presumably run a local government in Oklahoma City sent an email to every African-American municipal employee telling them to report to a special meeting,&#8221; said Carlson (video and full transcript below). &#8220;Imagine that when those employees arrive, again, black employees only, nobody else allowed, they were informed that the fact they were black was deeply offensive. In fact, it was a kind of crime. And the only way to atone for the sin of their blackness was to apologize for it. Apologize for being born black and then work to shed all traces of your black identity. Stop spending so much time around your black friends, stop repeating things your black parents told you growing up, start admitting out loud that you hate yourself for having black skin. Imagine if that actually happened in this country. What would you think of it?&#8221;
&#8220;You’d be horrified, obviously, it’s completely disgusting,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;It is immoral to attack people for how they were born. It’s always immoral. And by the way, it’s also illegal. The Justice Department would never tolerate something like that. Civil rights division would shut down the program tonight and would bring criminal charges against the people who ran it and you would applaud them as they did that, and we would too.&#8221;
&#8220;So with that in mind, consider what is happening right now in one of America’s most liberal cities, Seattle,&#8221; said Carlson. &#8220;Four years ago, Hillary Clinton got 87% of the vote in Seattle. There aren&#8217;t many places more loyal to the Democratic Party. Recently the city of Seattle summoned its white employees and only its white employees to a meeting and then informed them that their skin color is a crime. The city called this anti-racism training. Events like it are taking place all over the country right now, schools, local governments, corporations, the military. The city of Seattle named its training session &#8216;Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness&#8217;.&#8221;
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<blockquote>Carlson: So here’s a thought experiment for you: Oklahoma City is one of the most conservative metro areas in the United States. Donald Trump won almost 60% of the vote there almost four years ago. Imagine if the conservatives who presumably run a local government in Oklahoma City sent an email to every African-American municipal employee telling them to report to a special meeting. Imagine that when those employees arrive, again, black employees only, nobody else allowed, they were informed that the fact they were black was deeply offensive. In fact, it was a kind of crime. And the only way to atone for the sin of their blackness was to apologize for it. Apologize for being born black and then work to shed all traces of your black identity. Stop spending so much time around your black friends, stop repeating things your black parents told you growing up, start admitting out loud that you hate yourself for having black skin.
Imagine if that actually happened in this country. What would you think of it? You’d be horrified, obviously, it’s completely disgusting. It is immoral to attack people for how they were born. It’s always immoral. And by the way, it’s also illegal. The Justice Department would never tolerate something like that. Civil rights division would shut down the program tonight and would bring criminal charges against the people who ran it and you would applaud them as they did that, and we would too.
So with that in mind, consider what is happening right now in one of America’s most liberal cities, Seattle. Four years ago, Hillary Clinton got 87% of the vote in Seattle. There aren&#8217;t many places more loyal to the Democratic Party. Recently the city of Seattle summoned its white employees and only its white employees to a meeting and then informed them that their skin color is a crime. The city called this anti-racism training. Events like it are taking place all over the country right now, schools, local governments, corporations, the military. The city of Seattle named its training session &#8216;Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness&#8217;.
City Journal wanted to know exactly what went on in the meeting like that, so [they] filed a public records request. This what [they] found. White employees in Seattle were informed that their so-called white qualities or offensive and unacceptable. Those qualities included perfectionism, objectivity and individualism. The employees were told to stop exhibiting these characteristics and instead they were ordered to undertake “the work of undoing your own whiteness.”
In order to achieve that, in order to erase the traits they were born with, white employees in Seattle were ordered to give up the following: They were ordered to give up comfort, they were ordered to give up spending time with her family, they were ordered to give up guaranteed physical safety, control over other people and the land, relationships with some other white people, niceties from neighbors and colleagues, and &#8216;the certainty of your jobs.&#8217; Prepare to be unemployed, pale employees of Seattle, your skin color disgusts us. All of that actually happen in Seattle. &#8230;
Atrocities like this aren&#8217;t just happening like this in Seattle, there happening everywhere. Some will almost certainly happen in your kid&#8217;s school this fall. No one will ask your permission before they do it, they’ll just attack your children for how they were born. The people doing the attacking, by the way, would tell you with a straight face how opposed they are to gay conversion therapy because, of course, it’s immoral to try to change people’s intrinsic qualities. They wouldn’t see the irony in that. More likely they don’t care about irony. This isn’t about principles, it’s about hate, humiliation and power. It is about hurting people, it always is. Telling people they are inferior because of their skin color was wrong when it happened 60 years ago in Alabama. It is every bit as wrong when it happens today in Seattle or at Yale or Google headquarters or your kid&#8217;s elementary school.
Attacking people on the basis for their race is a sin. There is nothing worse for a country. They can try to disguise it with Orwellian terms like &#8216;anti-racism&#8217;, but this is the purest kind of race hate. It will destroy America faster than anything else. Don’t put up with it. Resist, speak out, fight back. This is totally wrong until you stand up, it will continue.</blockquote>
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WATCH: Tucker Highlights Seattle Allegedly Selecting City Employees For Anti-Racism Training Based On Skin Color

Former &#8220;Bachelorette&#8221; Rachel Lindsay, the first black American to lead a season of the franchise, opened up Thursday about her struggles with overcoming her personal opposition to interracial dating.
Speaking on the YouTube series “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjc95uGeJ6Q&amp;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Uncomfortable Conversations</a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjc95uGeJ6Q&amp;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> with a Black Man</a>” on Thursday, Lindsay said she used to be &#8220;so against&#8221; dating men outside her race.
“I’ve always been told that I wasn’t black enough and I’m not even [biracial],” Lindsay said, as highlighted by <a href="https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/rachel-lindsay-says-she-was-once-against-dating-outside-of-her-race/">Us Weekly</a>. “I’m a black woman and I’ve always been told that I wasn’t black enough because of the way that I grew up, the experiences that I had. So I, you know, to be 100 percent honest it was something that I fought before I came on to &#8216;The Bachelor.'&#8221;
“Up until I was 30 I really didn’t date seriously outside of my race because I felt like society – not my parents, not my friends – society was telling me I had to pick a black man,” she added.
When it came to choosing her man to marry, Lindsay said she did not want to meet people&#8217;s expectations by falling for a man simply because he looked like her.
“I feel like they expect me to pick someone who looks just like me, but that’s not fair. They should just want me to fall in love with whoever it is that I vibe with,” she said.
Lindsay eventually chose Bryan Abasolo, a man of Colombian descent. They were married in August 2019.
As the &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; protests erupted nationwide in early June, Lindsay <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-bachelorette-rachel-lindsay-says-show-needs-more-diversity">called on the show</a> to promote more diversity.
“In 40 seasons, [‘The Bachelor’] had one black lead,” Lindsay said. “You are almost on par to say you’re more likely to become the president of the United States than you are a black lead in this franchise. That’s insane. That’s ridiculous.”
If the franchise does not change course, Lindsay said that she is prepared to step away from it entirely. Just recently, she appeared as a judge on the “Bachelor” spin-off show “<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/entertainment/genres/reality" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Listen to Your Heart</a>.&#8221;
“It’s been asked of me: ‘Will I continue in this franchise if it continues in this way?&#8217;” Lindsay said. “I can’t. I have to see some type of change. It’s ridiculous. It’s embarrassing. At this point, it’s embarrassing to be affiliated with it.”
Lindsay also said in an Instagram post that black women are not appreciated enough in this country.
“We are BLACK WOMEN…we build…we don’t tear down other black women…for many years we have felt the pain of not being seen for our undeniably beautiful skin, instead, we are looked down upon,” she said. “But right now in this moment, we will acknowledge each other! We will uplift each other today! We can see how they portray the black women on the media and what affect that has had on our beautiful black girls. The fighting, the screaming, and the judging has run its course. We are beautifully the same. Upload 1 picture/video of just you and tag as many beautiful black queens as you would like. Please let’s keep this challenge going!”
This article and its headline have been revised for clarity. 
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Earlier this week, researchers who wrote a paper published in 2019 that found “no evidence of anti-Black or anti-Hispanic disparities across shootings, and White officers are not more likely to shoot minority civilians than non-White officers,” asked for it to be retracted, and their statement caused a number of conservatives to opine that the authors seemingly wanted it taken down because it didn’t fit the left-wing narrative about police.
In their initial retraction statement, crime researchers David Johnson, of the University of Maryland and Joe Cesario of Michigan State University referred to Heather Mac Donald, the author of The New York Times bestseller <a href="https://www.manhattan-institute.org/waroncops">The War on Cops</a> (2016), which the <a href="https://www.manhattan-institute.org/expert/heather-mac-donald">Manhattan Institute</a> said had warned that &#8220;raced-based attacks on the criminal-justice system, from the White House on down, are eroding the authority of law and putting lives at risk.&#8221;
Mac Donald wrote about the paper in the City Journal and The Wall Street Journal, asserting, “The more frequently officers encounter violent suspects from any given racial group, the greater the chance that a member of that group will be fatally shot by a police officer.”
Robert Verbruggen noted in <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/controversial-police-shooting-study-retracted/">National Review</a>:
<blockquote>“The authors of an often-cited study about racial bias in police shootings have asked for it to be retracted, while standing behind the data and statistical analysis. They’re retracting the paper only because they don’t like the way it’s being discussed in the media. As I <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/a-police-shooting-study-comes-under-fire/">explained last year</a>, the study has been controversial because of the roundabout way it approached the issue: It checked to see if, when police kill civilians, there is a correlation between the officers’ races and the suspects’. The idea is that if white cops are killing blacks out of bias, white cops should disproportionately be involved in killings of blacks.”</blockquote>
He surmised of the researchers’ reaction to Mac Donald’s statement, “I’d imagine they’d prefer something like ‘when someone has been shot by the police, that person is more likely to be black if homicide victims in the surrounding county are heavily black, but not if the officer involved is white,” then added, “I’m all for using precise language and correcting retraction, the record when you fail to, but retracting the entire study is a bad decision. The lack of a correlation between officer and suspect race is noteworthy and deserves to be a part of the discussion.”
But then Johnson and Cesario issued an amended retraction statement in which they elided Mac Donald’s name; they told <a href="https://retractionwatch.com/2020/07/08/retraction-of-paper-on-police-killings-and-race-not-due-to-mob-pressure-or-distaste-for-the-political-views-of-people-citing-the-work-approvingly-say-authors/">Retraction Watch</a>, “The [first statement] was an earlier version and we slightly amended it because people were incorrectly concluding that we retracted due to either political pressure or the political views of those citing the paper. Neither is correct and so this version makes the reason more clear.”
The authors also added these paragraphs:
<blockquote>We were careless when describing the inferences that could be made from our data. This led to the misuse of our article to support the position that the probability of being shot by police did not differ between Black and White Americans. To be clear, our work does not speak to this issue and should not be used to support such statements. We accordingly issued a correction to rectify this statement (Johnson &amp; Cesario, 2020).
Although our data and statistical approach were valid to estimate the question we actually tested (the race of civilians fatally shot by police), given continued misuse of the article we felt the right decision was to retract the article rather than publish further corrections. We take full responsibility for not being careful enough with the inferences made in our original article, as this directly led to the misunderstanding of our research.
This was the sole reason for our decision to retract the article; this decision had nothing to do with political considerations, “mob” pressure, threats to the authors, or distaste for the political views of people citing the work approvingly.
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After the amended retraction statement, Verbruggan summed up: “It still says they&#8217;re retracting it not because it&#8217;s wrong but because of how it&#8217;s being discussed in the media, but they removed references to Heather Mac Donald and say the politics of people doing the citing aren&#8217;t the issue. My take does not change.”
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Authors Of Paper On Police Killings And Race Cite ‘Misuse’ By Media, Ask It Be Retracted. Say ‘Political Considerations’ Weren’t Involved.

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Congresswoman Ilhan Omar <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1280661677273464834?s=20">declared</a> during a press conference yesterday that America&#8217;s &#8220;system of oppression&#8221; must be &#8220;dismantled.&#8221; She identified our political and economic systems, as well as the criminal justice system, as perpetuators of this oppression.
While listening to Omar deliver one of her trademark soliloquies about our evil and oppressive country, one wonders what exactly is this oppression she speaks of? Who is being oppressed and in what way are they being oppressed?
Omar is not the only one painting such a dystopian picture of our society. This is the message we hear all across the Left — from the protesters and riots, from Hollywood, from academia, from the media. Take this <a href="https://twitter.com/TeenVogue/status/1280661656847220736">article</a> just published by Teen Vogue, claiming that the United States is &#8220;by every indication, more committed to death, subjugation, and grief than life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.&#8221; To prove the point, the author (who, for the record, goes by the Twitter handle @SatansJacuzzi) points to the recent but unconnected murders of two women. A vague attempt is made to link their deaths to racism. But what the esteemed Satan&#8217;s Jacuzzi neglects to mention is that both women were killed by black men.
Why didn&#8217;t the author use more useful and relevant examples of black women killed by white men? Probably because such cases are exceedingly rare. Despite America being, as the piece says, &#8220;a vast tapestry of death,&#8221; the fact is that white people rarely kill black people. The reverse is also true. As FBI statistics <a href="https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-2016/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-3.xls">show</a>, the vast majority of blacks are killed by blacks, and whites by whites. Interracial murders do occur, but very rarely, and the rare black-on-white murder is twice as common as the reverse.
And yet people are marching through the streets with <a href="https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/stop-killing-us-thousands-of-protestors-take-over-south-florida-streets/2241631/">signs</a> screaming &#8220;Stop killing us.&#8221; A writer for the Atlantic is more specific, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/damage-white-onlookers-inflict/612583/">saying</a>, &#8220;I want white people to stop killing us.&#8221; We are supposed to believe that black people are being hunted and gunned down in the street by racist whites, but this epidemic of racial violence is almost entirely imaginary. It&#8217;s a fable that is being repeated over and over again, from all corners of society, until people are persuaded just by the force of sheer repetition.
Even McDonald&#8217;s is getting in on the act. The fast food chain recently tweeted a <a href="https://twitter.com/McDonalds/status/1277433235111202816?s=20">video</a> of a &#8220;trans woman&#8221; pleading with the public to &#8220;stop killing us.&#8221; Once again, the plea is unnecessary. The supposed problem of anti-trans violence is a <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/04/the-left-is-lying-about-a-hatred-and-violence-epidemic-against-transgender-people/">myth</a>. Trans people are murdered — just like people of all groups are murdered, given that we are mortal beings living in a human society — but almost all of the murders are tied to domestic violence, prostitution, or drugs. Bigotry rarely has anything to do with it.
McDonald&#8217;s is not alone. A great many of the largest and richest corporations in America have adopted the far-left talking points of Black Lives Matter and done their part to spread the misinformation to the public, which is not exactly what you&#8217;d expect in a country supposedly committed to the oppression and extermination of racial minorities. Indeed, corporations are so firmly on the side of the alleged &#8220;oppressed&#8221; that Colin Kaepernick has been able to parlay his oppression into multi-million dollar partnerships with three major corporations. He now has deals in place with Disney, Nike, and Netflix. Not a bad kind of persecution, if you can find it.
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Not every allegedly oppressed person is as rich and (unduly) admired as Kaepernick. But, statistically speaking, almost everyone in this country is richer, freer, and more comfortable than almost everyone else who has lived on Earth at any point in history, anywhere on the globe. We all enjoy an unprecedented amount of freedom and luxury. Some of us more than others — we can&#8217;t all be as privileged as Colin Kaepernick — but even the most economically disadvantaged in our society still have liberties and luxuries unknown to the poor and downtrodden elsewhere on the planet and throughout history. None of this means that we should be complacent or accepting of actual injustice when it occurs, but it does make you wonder why now, of all times, and here, of all places, we should be seeing crazed mobs burning cities and calling for the dismantling of the system that has made them historically secure and comfortable in the first place.
I think the answer is that struggle is a basic human need. Humans, it turns out, must have something to struggle against, fight against, overcome. Humans need, even, to suffer — if only in manageable doses. What we cannot do is sit still, luxuriating in our comforts, and remarking on how easy we have it. We cannot be happy that way. Decadence is not quite as fun or fulfilling as we thought it would be. We need a struggle of some kind, but in modern society, there aren&#8217;t many forms of struggle immediately on offer. So we have to create one for ourselves.
There are two ways to go about this: the healthy or unhealthy way. The healthy way is to set out to do constructive and meaningful things that are difficult and require sacrifice. The most obvious and important example of this is starting a family. By starting a family, you make your life far more complicated, but in the bargain you get love, meaning, purpose, and an escape from loneliness.
And then there are the smaller undertakings, the little things people can do to purposefully make their lives a little harder than they need to be. Gardening, hunting, fishing, fixing your own plumbing, changing your own oil, making meals from scratch, etc. Modern society has provided much easier ways to obtain the practical benefits of all of these kinds of things, but we do them anyway, because it takes effort, and healthy people find value in putting in the effort. It is work largely for its own sake.
There was a time of course — the majority of human history, in fact — when people had no choice but to do everything the hard way. If you wanted something built, you had to build it. If you wanted something to eat, you had to grow it, kill it, or catch it. And we notice that in those times, there rarely were people marching through the streets over imaginary oppression. They had their struggle. They lived it every day. There was no need to create any new ones for themselves. Because every other human need was not automatically met, the human need for struggle was always met.
But what happens when someone rejects all of the fruitful and constructive outlets to satisfy this need? Then they resort to self-martyrdom and persecution complexes. For a lot of people, this means randomly ruining their relationships, creating drama where it doesn&#8217;t need to be, and convincing themselves that everyone is out to get them. They thrive on gossip, envy, and feelings of personal offense and injury. They are likely to find supposed backstabbers, cheaters, liars, and fake friends everywhere they go, because that is how they see the world; it is the struggle they have made for themselves. &#8220;Why can&#8217;t I find an honest man,&#8221; a woman of this sort will lament. The answer is that she can find an honest man, and quite easily, but she doesn&#8217;t want to. She has found meaning in her manufactured struggle, and she doesn&#8217;t want to let it go.
The protesters are in this camp, doing a version of this same thing. They fulfill their need for struggle by making up elaborate mythologies about oppression and persecution. They convince themselves that they are in a fight for their lives against the murderous racists and oppressive bigots who lurk around every corner. It&#8217;s all hallucinatory, a mirage for people whose freedom and luxury has made them thirst for struggle the way a man in the desert thirsts for water. But mirage or not, they will hang onto it and no mere fact or statistic will be allowed to interfere. They are determined to take vengeance on America, even if America never did anything to them but give them everything they could ever want or need. The irony is that if they succeed, if they actually do tear this country down, dismantle it, then the luxury and freedom and comfort will disappear, and they will finally get the authentic version of the oppression they so desperately want.
And once they have it, they will quickly decide that they don&#8217;t really want it. But then they will no longer have a choice. All they will be able to do is lie in the bed that they have made.
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WALSH: The Mob Is Trying To Destroy America Over Imaginary Oppression. Here’s Why.  

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On his Fox News show Wednesday, host Tucker Carlson contrasted CNN host Don Lemon&#8217;s recent political comments about the black community with comments he made in 2013.
In the segment, Carlson highlighted comments from this week in which Lemon <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-cnns-don-lemon-battles-with-terry-crews-over-black-lives-matters-agenda">suggested</a> that &#8220;black lives matter&#8221; does not mean &#8220;all black lives matter,&#8221; stating that the movement is not &#8220;all-encompassing&#8221; and specifically does not focus on black-on-black violence, as well as comments in which he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnns-chris-cuomo-don-lemon-mock-rising-crime-rates-in-democrat-controlled-cities">mocked</a> reports about the rising crime rates in major U.S. cities. Carlson then played comments from Lemon in 2013 addressing issues in the black community.
&#8220;Now if you’re running a channel like CNN, you want dumb people on TV because they are compliant, they will say what they’re told, they will tell the audience what the moment demands, they will never stray from the script, and that’s exactly what Mr. Lemon is doing,&#8221; Carlson said. &#8220;But just seven years ago, it was a different country and people were kind of allowed to say what they thought was true. And so at the time, here’s what Don Lemon was saying about black communities.&#8221;
In the 2013 CNN clip, Lemon said:
<blockquote>More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock, that means absent fathers. And the studies show that a lack of a male role model is an express train right to prison, and the cycle continues. So please, black folks, as I said, if this doesn&#8217;t apply to you, I&#8217;m not talking to you. Pay attention to and think about what has been presented in recent history as acceptable behavior.
Pay close attention to the hip-hop and rap culture that many of you embrace, a culture that glorifies everything I just mentioned. Thug and reprehensible behavior, a culture that is making a lot of people rich, just not you and it’s not going to.</blockquote>
&#8220;Wow,&#8221; Carlson said after playing the clip. &#8220;Can you imagine what would happen if Don Lemon or his bodybuilding buddy [Chris Cuomo] over there or any of these hair-hats said something like that on CNN tonight or MSNBC? That would be their last live broadcast ever. They would be fired immediately. You can’t express views like that, and so they don’t. It tells you a lot.&#8221;
A longer clip of the 2013 CNN segment featuring Lemon floated around on social media earlier in the day and showed some of the other comments that Lemon made. Lemon said:
<blockquote>CNN&#8217;S DON LEMON: It&#8217;s time now for some tough love on the subject.
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BILL O&#8217;REILLY, FOX NEWS HOST: The reason there is so much violence and chaos in the black precincts is the disintegration of the African-American family.
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LEMON: He&#8217;s got a point. In fact, he&#8217;s got more than a point. Bill?
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O&#8217;REILLY: Raised without much structure, young black men often reject education and gravitate towards the street culture, drugs, hustling, gangs. Nobody forces them to do that, again, it is a personal decision.
[END VIDEO CLIP]
LEMON: He is right about that, too. But in my estimation, he doesn&#8217;t go far enough. Because black people, if you really want to fix the problem, here&#8217;s just five things that you should think about doing.
Here&#8217;s number five. Pull up your pants.
Number four now is the n-word.
Now number three. Respect where you live. Start small by not dropping trash, littering in your own communities. I&#8217;ve lived in several predominantly white neighborhoods in my life, I rarely, if ever, witnessed people littering. I live in Harlem now, it&#8217;s an historically black neighborhood, every single day I see adults and children dropping their trash on the ground when a garbage can is just feet away. Just being honest here.
Number two, finish school. You want to break the cycle of poverty? Stop telling kids they&#8217;re acting white because they go to school or they speak proper English. Over the course of a career, a college grad will make nearly $1 million more than a high school graduate. That&#8217;s a lot of money.
And number one, and probably the most important, just because you can have a baby, it doesn&#8217;t mean you should. Especially without planning for one or getting married first. More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers. And the studies show that lack of a male role model is an express train right to prison and the cycle continues.</blockquote>
Carlson&#8217;s segment has been widely circulated online. Among others, popular political commentator Dave Rubin tweeted out the video clip and declared that it was &#8220;an absolutely staggering take down.&#8221;
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This is an absolutely staggering take down of Don Lemon by <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TuckerCarlson</a>. <a href="https://t.co/Gm7P5li6P6">pic.twitter.com/Gm7P5li6P6</a>
&mdash; Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) <a href="https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1281045010700398593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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🚨📽️Just Watch📽️🚨
This is a real video from 2013.
It is only edited for time (to fit Twitter’s 2:20 limit), but the context is unchanged.
The full video is in the link below.
I must admit: Don Lemon genuinely seemed to care about black lives in 2013<a href="https://t.co/XSf3nQua7o">https://t.co/XSf3nQua7o</a> <a href="https://t.co/kBFa6SPpH1">pic.twitter.com/kBFa6SPpH1</a>
&mdash; The Panda Tribune (@PandaTribune) <a href="https://twitter.com/PandaTribune/status/1280957640676433920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: Tucker Plays Lemon’s Comments From 2013 On Black Community That’d Get Him ‘Fired Immediately’ Now

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This week, CNN&#8217;s Don Lemon, who has spent the last few weeks bashing the supposed thoroughgoing systemic racism of the United States, hosted black actor Terry Crews. He then proceeded to browbeat Crews, who had committed the great sin of tweeting, &#8220;#ALLBLACKLIVESMATTER 9 black CHILDREN killed by violence in Chicago since June 20, 2020.&#8221;
Lemon specifically <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnns-don-lemon-black-lives-matter-movement-is-not-about-all-black-lives-matter">objected</a> to Crews&#8217; hashtag. After Lemon humbly informed Crews that he has skin &#8220;as tough as an armadillo,&#8221; he then lectured: &#8220;The Black Lives Matter movement was started because it was talking about police brutality. &#8230; But that&#8217;s not what Black Lives Matter is about. It&#8217;s not &#8230; all-encompassing &#8230; The Black Lives Matter movement is about police brutality and injustice in that matter, not about what&#8217;s happening in black neighborhoods.&#8221;
This, of course, is largely false. The Black Lives Matter movement did indeed begin with protests about police brutality but quickly morphed into broader debates over the validity of looting and rioting, tearing down historic statues, slavery reparations and defunding the police. And Black Lives Matter, as Crews correctly pointed out, has never restricted its mandate to the question of police violence: It has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/black-lives-matter-what-we-believe-page-disrupt-the-western-prescribed-nuclear-family-dismantle-cisgender-privilege">announced</a> that its focuses also include police brutality, transgender rights, gay rights, disrupting the nuclear family and freeing Palestine, among other diverse topics.
So why is Lemon so deeply invested in preventing conversations about black lives? Why, in fact, do only some black lives matter, rather than all?
That&#8217;s not merely a question asked by conservatives or contrarians. It&#8217;s being asked all over the United States by black Americans being left to the predations of criminals, in large part thanks to the woke virtue signaling of many Black Lives Matter leaders and media allies.
In Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser emblazoned the enormous yellow words &#8220;BLACK LIVES MATTER&#8221; on 16th Street. Protesters quickly added &#8220;DEFUND THE POLICE.&#8221; One month later, 11-year-old Davon McNeal was shot in the head while heading to a family cookout on July 4. His grandfather, John Ayala, lamented: &#8220;We&#8217;re protesting for months, for weeks, saying, &#8216;Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter.&#8217; Black lives matter it seems like, only when a police officer shoots a black person. What about all the black-on-black crime that&#8217;s happening in the community?&#8221;
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McNeal was just one of the latest victims of a wave of violence gripping America&#8217;s major cities. Last weekend, at least 89 people were shot in Chicago, leaving at least 17 dead. Shootings in Philadelphia have spiked 67%. In the first week of June, Los Angeles saw a shocking 250% increase in murders from the prior week. New York City&#8217;s shootings have skyrocketed 44% over last year&#8217;s numbers; every person shot there the week of June 29 — 101 — was from a minority community.
It turns out that the agenda of Black Lives Matter, which includes fighting against the prevalence of police — a call taken up by Democratic mayors and city councils around the United States — endangers black lives far more than the presence of police.
Yet these lives don&#8217;t particularly matter for Black Lives Matter advocates, apparently. Black lives matter when we&#8217;re talking about police brutality. But Don Lemon has no airtime each night for those who seek to talk about threats to black lives that dwarf in severity problems related to policing — and that are just as newsworthy. Indeed, the statistical case is unassailable that the daily murder of minority youths in America&#8217;s major cities is far more newsworthy than the latest cable panel discussion of &#8220;white fragility&#8221; or the &#8220;power of whiteness.&#8221;
But our current Black Lives Matter moment isn&#8217;t about Davon McNeal, even if the wages of Black Lives Matter&#8217;s recommended policies are death for those left unprotected by law enforcement. All that matters for too many in our elite institutions is the narrative that America&#8217;s systems are the greatest obstacle to black Americans. And not all lives lost are equally valuable in promoting that perverse narrative.
More from Ben Shapiro: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shapiro-anti-racism-crusade-seeks-to-eradicate-everything-we-share">‘Anti-Racism’ Crusade Seeks To Eradicate Everything We Share</a>

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SHAPIRO: Not All Black Lives Matter To Black Lives Matter

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If you feel like cringing uncontrollably, watch <a href="https://twitter.com/MillerStream/status/1279640632789807111?s=20">this video</a> of two girls at a swimming pool over the weekend singing about how they are &#8220;ashamed to be American&#8221; because &#8220;not all folks are free&#8221; and &#8220;this ain&#8217;t our land.&#8221; Similar sentiments were expressed by a <a href="https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1279569539227963392?s=20">group of protesters</a> in DC who burned an American flag on July 4th while chanting that the flag represents &#8220;slavery, genocide, and war&#8221; and that &#8220;America was never great.&#8221;
The flag-burners are fortunate that they live in this terrible place. If they&#8217;d pulled that stunt in many other countries across the globe, they&#8217;d have been dead or in handcuffs before they finished their chant. In India, for example, you can be arrested just for wearing the flag on your clothing, much less burning it in the middle of the street. Flag desecration laws in Saudi Arabia are so strict that even lowering it to half mast is illegal and subject to severe punishment. These protesters need not worry about any of that because they live here, where they have, in fact, much more freedom than they should — freedom that now includes the implicit permission to loot, riot, and vandalize, virtually without consequence.
The fact that they live here, and not somewhere over there, is in itself quite interesting. I am obviously not the first person to ask this question, but it has yet to be sufficiently answered, so I&#8217;ll ask it again: If you believe that America is a racist dystopia that was built on stolen land, and that we have no right to be here — &#8220;this ain&#8217;t our land,&#8221; as the smarmy white girls at the pool sang — and that there is almost nothing praiseworthy or good about it, then why are you still here? Why don’t you leave? There are 195 countries in the world. Two-thirds of them are largely non-white and non-western. Why don’t you move to one of them?
Now, the most obvious response is that they stay here, despite feeling this way about America, because they want to fight for change and progress. But that excuse is a non-starter. The things they hate about the US are mostly things that cannot possibly be changed. And even the things that seem like they could be changed, apparently cannot be. If this country was built on stolen land and we have no right to be here, there is no social progress that will ever alter the fact or make it better. If this &#8220;ain&#8217;t our land,&#8221; even after 250 years, then it never will be. Why would you stay on land that you believe doesn&#8217;t belong to you?
The supposed systemic racism in our country would seem like something that could be fixed, if it existed, but by the Left&#8217;s telling even the election of a black president didn’t improve the problem. It’s still as much an issue now as it’s ever been, they say. America is apparently sick to its very core. Given all of this, isn&#8217;t it a matter of moral necessity that you donate your assets to an Indian reservation and move to a country that is not a haven of white supremacy?
But nobody is doing this. The option is not entertained. As they sit around burning the flag and lamenting America&#8217;s myriad sins, never once does it occur to them to lead by example and finally flee from this empire of bigotry and genocide. They have been boycotting a fast food chicken restaurant for seven years because the owner disagreed with gay marriage. Yet the United States has been embarked on a ceaseless campaign of oppression, racism, and theft (they allege) for centuries and they do not even consider boycotting it. Why?
There are only two possible explanations: either they believe everything they say about this country and choose to stay on this stolen land because they feel it may benefit them in some way, or they do not believe what they say. The first option makes them amoral opportunists, and the second makes them frauds and hypocrites. If there is a third option, it&#8217;s some kind of mix of the first two. Whatever the answer — and I suspect it may be option three — these America-hating protesters are saying more about themselves than the country they live in.
More from Matt Walsh: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-the-left-says-america-was-built-on-stolen-land-heres-the-reality-that-narrative-ignores">The Left Says America Was Built On ‘Stolen Land’; Here’s The Reality That Narrative Ignores</a>

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A Democrat congressman from Georgia who has been targeted by members of his own party because he is an unabashed supporter of President Trump issued an op-ed on Tuesday in which he declared former Vice President Joe Biden a &#8220;full-blooded bigot.&#8221;
“Since that day in May when I announced I would support Donald Trump for president, my motives have been questioned, my integrity assailed, even my intelligence challenged. That’s okay,&#8221; wrote Georgia Rep. Vernon Jones (D) in an op-ed published by <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/07/jones-i-am-black-and-i-am-a-democrat-but-i-aint-voting-for-joe-biden-this-november/">The Daily Caller</a>. “Since that day in May when I announced I would support Donald Trump for president, my motives have been questioned, my integrity assailed, even my intelligence challenged. That’s okay. I’m a lifelong Democrat, but I am also a black man, the son of a World War II veteran and a proud American.&#8221;
Jones segued to Democrats&#8217; &#8220;absurd&#8221; calls to defund the police, noting that he had formerly served as former Chief Executive Officer of DeKalb County, Georgia, and thus managed “one of the largest police departments in the state.” The &#8220;Defund the Police&#8221; movement, he argued, &#8220;will only lead to more pain and suffering in our most vulnerable communities.&#8221;
&#8220;I’ve had the experience of dealing with police shootings and comforting the families of victims,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;But at the same time, I’ve also had the experience of losing two black police officers. I’ve had to comfort their families in the middle of the night and console their young children. I know firsthand when others are running away from chaos, police officers are running into the fight to protect and serve.&#8221;
Jones opined that Trump “was sickened by the death of George Floyd and fully committed to ensuring that he will not have died in vain.”
Jones went on to laud Trump’s executive order on police reform, then turned to Biden, noting that the black unemployment rate while he was vice president &#8220;averaged a horrific 12.8 percent,&#8221; while the number of black Americans fell by just 145,000 over eight years. &#8220;By comparison, more than double that number – 350,000 black Americans – were lifted out of poverty during just the first two years of the Trump administration,&#8221; Jones pointed out.
Jones then turned back the clock:
<blockquote>Even before that, where was Biden for 36 years in the United States Senate on this issue? I’ll tell you. He was too busy shouting “my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle.” That racial jungle he was referring to includes black and brown Americans like me. Right now, President Trump is being defined as a racist by the media, when in reality Joe Biden is the full-blooded bigot.
Don’t take my word for it, take then-Senator Joe Biden’s own words for it. “The truth is, every major crime bill since 1976 that’s come out of this Congress, every minor crime bill, has had the name of the Democratic senator from the State of Delaware: Joe Biden.” Now that Biden is running for president in a woke Democratic Party in 2020, he’s attempting to sweep his racist legacy under the rug. We can’t let him.
Joe Biden is directly responsible for the mass incarceration policies of the 1980s and 1990s, which decimated the black community. Biden authored the 1994 crime bill which imposed mandatory minimum sentences, disproportionately putting hundreds of thousands of young black men in prison.</blockquote>
He closed the piece by addressing the black community. Describing Biden has having &#8220;betrayed black Americans throughout his career&#8221; and Trump as having &#8220;spent his 3.5 years in office fighting to improve the lives of black Americans,&#8221; Jones stressed, &#8220;We cannot be tricked again&#8221; by politicians who &#8220;only care about black people during election years.&#8221; (<a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/07/jones-i-am-black-and-i-am-a-democrat-but-i-aint-voting-for-joe-biden-this-november/">Read Jones&#8217; full op-ed here</a>.)
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Vernon Jones

Trump-Supporting Dem Congressman: ‘Joe Biden Is The Full-Blooded Bigot’

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Music icon Justin Timberlake weighed into the current national debate on racial justice in a social media post Monday, arguing for the removal of Confederate monuments and providing his theory on why protests of racism in America are interpreted as &#8220;protesting America itself.&#8221;
On Monday, the world-famous singer shared a post from the ACLU about former Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest in which he called for the removal of all Confederate monuments.
&#8220;When we protest racism in America, people think we are protesting America itself. Why is that the reaction? Because America was built by men who believed in and benefitted from racism. Plain and simple. If we plan to move forward, these confederate monuments must come down,&#8221; he tweeted.
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When we protest racism in America, people think we are protesting America itself. Why is that the reaction? Because America was built by men who believed in and benefitted from racism. Plain and simple. 
If we plan to move forward, these confederate monuments must come down. <a href="https://t.co/j2IgZ8Nr7D">https://t.co/j2IgZ8Nr7D</a>
&mdash; Justin Timberlake (@jtimberlake) <a href="https://twitter.com/jtimberlake/status/1280252496288636929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Timberlake&#8217;s post on American white supremacy comes several weeks after he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/justin-timberlake-black-people-in-america-are-not-safe">declared</a> that &#8220;black people in America are not safe.&#8221;
“The system needs to change… it has repeatedly shown us that Black people in America are not safe. I’ll follow up with more resources and ways to help. Continue to SAY THEIR NAMES. [Black Lives Matter],” said Timberlake.
The characterization of America as a fundamentally white supremacist nation has become a popular talking point since the Black Lives Matter protests took root nationwide.
On July 4, former 49ers quarterback and Black Lives Matter activist Colin Kaepernick <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/celebration-of-white-supremacy-colin-kaepernicks-july-4-posts-compared-to-his-pre-anthem-protest-july-4-post">even said</a> that Independence Day was a &#8220;celebration of white supremacy.&#8221;
“Black [people] have been dehumanized, brutalized, criminalized [and] terrorized by America for centuries, [and] are expected to join your commemoration of ‘independence,’ while you enslaved our ancestors,” Kaepernick tweeted. “We reject your celebration of white supremacy [and] look forward to liberation for all.”
Last week, actor Danny Glover said that the police are the guardians of white supremacy.
“We see the actual violence because the police is what it is. It’s the last line of defense for white supremacy. That’s what the police represents. They don’t protect African Americans,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/danny-glover-police-are-the-last-line-of-defense-for-white-supremacy">he said</a>. “You can make an argument that the institutional violence has its roots in so many different ways. The violence that we see now that is acted out on the physical body of George Floyd has been the kind of violence that is engrained within the American idea of its culture, in its own subtlety, since the first Africans were brought here. So it’s 400 years of violence. It’s not just now!”
Jon Stewart, former host of &#8220;The Daily Show,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jon-stewart-the-police-enforce-segregation">said last month</a> that police effectively serve as the &#8220;border patrol&#8221; of a segregated society.
“The police are, in some respects, a border patrol, and they patrol the border between the two Americas. We have that so that the rest of us don’t have to deal with it. Then that situation erupts, and we express our shock and indignation,” Stewart said. “There’s always this begrudging sense that black people are being granted something, when it’s white people’s lack of being able to live up to the defining words of the birth of the country that is the problem. There’s a lack of recognition of the difference in our system.”
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Alfred Dunhill Links Championship &#8211; Day One

Justin Timberlake: ‘America Built By Men Who Believed In And Benefited From Racism’

Colin Kaepernick

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Videos posted on social media show parishioners, both black and white, being harassed and physically assaulted at Grace Baptist Church in Troy, New York.
The protesters, repeatedly shouting &#8220;Black Lives Matter,&#8221; even harassed and blocked churchgoers while they were with their young children, using a megaphone to scream at the families, shaming and threatening their parents with calls to CPS, or Child Protective Services.
The assaults, harassment, and protesting have been occurring since at least the end of June, according to the viral videos posted online. The church has refused to close or back down, directing men from the parish to help escort fellow worshipers inside as they are blocked by BLM protesters.
Grace Baptist Church made headlines last month for giving away an <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/29/upstate-new-york-church-faces-backlash-for-ar-15-giveaway/">AR-15</a> as a prize for a church raffle. When the giveaway was first reported, Pastor John Koletas told <a href="https://wnyt.com/troy-new-york-news/gun-giveaway-grace-baptist-church-troy-rensselaer-county/5775568/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">WNYT</a> that the church held it in solidarity with hunters and gun owners who have been &#8220;viciously attacked by anti-Christian socialist policies.&#8221; One local critic told <a href="https://cbs6albany.com/news/local/troy-church-gives-away-ar-15s">WRGB</a> at the time that the giveaway exhibited &#8220;extreme poor taste,&#8221; citing &#8220;all of the shootings going on in all of our communities.&#8221;
However, it&#8217;s unclear if the gun-giveaway is connected to the protests shown in the videos. In the videos, protesters slam the church as &#8220;racist&#8221; but do not appear to mention the AR-15 giveaway.
In one of the videos, protesters storm the church and repeatedly chant &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; and a near-fight breaks out. Additionally, one of the protesters yells at a churchgoer, &#8220;f*** you.&#8221; He responds by saying &#8220;Jesus loves you.&#8221; The protester replies by telling the man Jesus doesn&#8217;t love him.
In other footage, mostly black churchgoers are shamed and screamed at by protesters as they walk into the church. One female protester yells at a black parishioner, &#8220;You should be ashamed, sister.&#8221;
A young white mother with three kids is also harassed as she tries to enter Grace Baptist. The mother is seen trying to console one of her young sons as he is visibly upset and scared, trying to leave the area.
At one encounter, a churchgoer attempts to go up the steps into Grace Baptist but is held back and physically assaulted by protesters. The pastor of the church gets involved to save the man, who is grossly outnumbered.
The pastor was apparently assaulted during the scuffle, as one protester taunts, &#8220;How&#8217;s your head feel, pastor?&#8221; The pastor was also called &#8220;soft&#8221; and a &#8220;p****.&#8221;
&#8220;Stop hiding behind your godd*mn religion,&#8221; another protester shouted. &#8220;This church is racist,&#8221; screamed another.
As for the church, Grace Baptist is not backing down.
A Twitter account for the church posted a video of one of the pastors vowing to continue on, refusing to change his messaging or being scared away by the novel coronavirus or the &#8220;mob.&#8221;
&#8220;We will NEVER apologize to the mob!&#8221; the video, posted on Monday, is captioned (view below).
&#8220;It&#8217;s not my fault for preaching the same thing we&#8217;ve preached for 33 years,&#8221; the pastor says. &#8220;It&#8217;s not my fault everybody wants to put it online, I don&#8217;t care. They can shut us down. I ain&#8217;t changing my preaching because we&#8217;re [online].&#8221;
WATCH the violent protesting, below:
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These young children were more mature than the thugs berating them and their mother as they walked into church. 
Hear as pastor asks them multiple to stop blocking the church entrance. GBC men form a line to protect children. <a href="https://t.co/iZYJaxH1sH">pic.twitter.com/iZYJaxH1sH</a>
&mdash; Grace Baptist Church (@realgbctroyny) <a href="https://twitter.com/realgbctroyny/status/1279151637915992065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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attendees to Grace Baptist Church in TROY. NY had to be escorted in and out of church today as they were berated by <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BLM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BLM</a> protestors: take a hard look at this ——&gt; <a href="https://t.co/zWwpilWDy8">pic.twitter.com/zWwpilWDy8</a>
&mdash; Kevin McCashion 🇺🇸 (@Kevin_McCashion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Kevin_McCashion/status/1277418795015995392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 29, 2020</a></blockquote>
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We will never back down from wickedness in Troy, NY! <a href="https://t.co/g1WYDmebG9">pic.twitter.com/g1WYDmebG9</a>
&mdash; Grace Baptist Church (@realgbctroyny) <a href="https://twitter.com/realgbctroyny/status/1277264052578910216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Christians at Grace Baptist Church in Troy, NY we’re gathering to worship Sunday when BLM stormed their sanctuary and took over their church.
Violent BLM members stopped the service and assaulted the peaceful Christians verbally and physically.
WATCH:<a href="https://t.co/GIwEMOFsBj">pic.twitter.com/GIwEMOFsBj</a>
&mdash; Benny (@bennyjohnson) <a href="https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1280165501642178560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Why is the mob beating church members in Troy, NY for trying to enter church and escort black members through the mob?
“No justice, no peace” “Peaceful protest” <a href="https://t.co/qsE1kUvqnR">pic.twitter.com/qsE1kUvqnR</a>
&mdash; Grace Baptist Church (@realgbctroyny) <a href="https://twitter.com/realgbctroyny/status/1278860285386919936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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WATCH the response from Grace Baptist:
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We will NEVER apologize to the mob! <a href="https://t.co/Vsa6fABoYc">pic.twitter.com/Vsa6fABoYc</a>
&mdash; Grace Baptist Church (@realgbctroyny) <a href="https://twitter.com/realgbctroyny/status/1280177350882230273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Black Lives Matter Protest In New York

WATCH: Protesters Storm Baptist Church, Harass Children, Assault Parishioners: ‘How’s Your Head Feel, Pastor?’

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Correction: This post has been updated to reflect that an open letter excusing social justice protests during the pandemic garnered 1,288 signatories, not over 1,300. The signatories also included a number of medical students, activists, and others, not just epidemiologists and other health professionals.
Health experts are struggling to justify their widespread endorsement of social justice protests after repeatedly warning people against holding demonstrations against coronavirus lockdown orders.
Shortly after states began locking down in March to slow the spread of the coronavirus, business owners as well as furloughed and unemployed workers began marching in cities from New York to Los Angeles against the heavy-handed restrictions. Health officials and government officials condemned the anti-lockdown protests, and warned that the demonstrations could necessitate that the lockdown orders stay in place longer.
“I certainly condemned the anti-lockdown protests at the time, and I’m not condemning the protests now, and I struggle with that,” University of Texas epidemiologist Catherine Troisi told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/us/Epidemiologists-coronavirus-protests-quarantine.html">The New York Times</a>. “I have a hard time articulating why that is OK.”
After the death of George Floyd on May 25, the anti-lockdown protesters were largely forgotten as thousands of social justice activists packed streets in cities across the United States to protest police behavior and make allegations of systemic racism. Many of the lawmakers and experts who criticized anti-lockdown protests flouted social distancing rules to show solidarity with Black Lives Matter (BLM).
Nearly 1,300 epidemiologists, health experts, and others signed an <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Jyfn4Wd2i6bRi12ePghMHtX3ys1b7K1A/view">open letter</a> endorsing the protests, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dozens-of-public-health-experts-sign-letter-approving-protests-amid-pandemic-white-supremacy-predates-and-contributes-to-covid-19">stating</a> that “white supremacy is a lethal public health issue that predates and contributes to COVID-19.”
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who chided anti-lockdown protesters for weeks, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whitmer-spokeswoman-my-boss-didnt-violate-social-distancing-guidelines-when-she-marched-here-are-some-pictures">flouted</a> her own social distancing rules to join a BLM protest on June 4. Her spokeswoman later denied that she violated the rules, even as photos of the event show the governor kneeling with and touching activists.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyc-mayor-protesting-and-going-to-church-not-the-same">said</a> that the BLM protesters were fighting an “extraordinary crisis” that outweighed the threat of the coronavirus and is more important than reopening struggling businesses or allowing devout individuals to return to houses of worship.
“When you see a nation, an entire nation, simultaneously grappling with an extraordinary crisis seeded in 400 years of American racism,” de Blasio said June 2. “I’m sorry, that is not the same question as the understandably aggrieved store owner or the devout religious person who wants to go back to services.”
Health experts interviewed by the NYT admitted that condemning one protest and supporting another based on the grievance of the protesters at least appears hypocritical, if not evidence of a blatant double-standard.
“Instinctively, many of us in public health feel a strong desire to act against accumulated generations of racial injustice,” Brown University Epidemiology Professor Mark Lurie said. “But we have to be honest: A few weeks before, we were criticizing protesters for arguing to open up the economy and saying that was dangerous behavior … I am still grappling with that.”
Nicholas A. Christakis, professor of social and natural science at Yale, warned against officials and health experts making moral distinctions between the anti-lockdown and BLM protests. He pointed to other activities that health experts forbid during the pandemic, such as visiting loved ones in the hospital, which caused significant emotional stress.
“We allowed thousands of people to die alone,” Christakis said. “We buried people by Zoom. Now all of a sudden we are saying, never mind?”
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Black Lives Matter Protest

Health Experts ‘Grappling’ With Double-Standard Between Anti-Lockdown And BLM Protests

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Democratic Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms suggested during a Monday interview on CNN that President Donald Trump was partly responsible for the death of an 8-year-old African-American girl in the city late last week.
Late on Saturday, Secoriea Turner was killed when a car she was riding in was shot up near the Wendy&#8217;s where Rayshard Brooks was killed last month after he resisted arrest and fired a taser in the direction of a pursuing officer.
CNN host Brooke Baldwin asked Bottoms how such a tragic incident could occur. &#8220;I want to just get right to Secoriea, 8 years of age. You said it over the weekend. She was a baby,&#8221; said Baldwin. &#8220;How could this happen?&#8221;
&#8220;I was listening to [Chicago] Mayor [Lori] Lightfoot, she summed it up,&#8221; Bottoms said. &#8220;We talk about systemic racism and the trauma and anxiety and all these things that are happening in our communities. And it is this convergence.&#8221;
&#8220;And I hate to use the word a perfect storm, but it&#8217;s where we are in this country right now,&#8221; Bottoms continued. &#8220;And you think about the leadership or the lack thereof that we have coming from the highest office in the land. I think that you are seeing so many emotions play out. And so, too often, it&#8217;s playing out in violence in our streets.&#8221;
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Unhinged: Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms blames <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> for violence in her city.
CNN&#39;s Brooke Baldwin offers ZERO push back.
Reminder <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a>: &quot;Every citizen and every community has the right to be &#8230; safe in their homes, and safe on our city streets.” <a href="https://t.co/TYWOxSfQSM">pic.twitter.com/TYWOxSfQSM</a>
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<blockquote>CNN HOST BROOKE BALDWIN: With me now, the mayor of Atlanta, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms. So, Mayor Bottoms, thank you so much for being with me. And I want to just get right to Secoriea, 8 years of age. You said it over the weekend. She was a baby. How could this happen?
KEISHA LANCE BOTTOMS (D), MAYOR OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA: You know, Brooke, that&#8217;s the question that we&#8217;re all asking ourselves.
And, ironically, I found a note on my desk, and I don&#8217;t even know the context in which I wrote this out. But I said, I don&#8217;t know the answers because I often don&#8217;t even know the questions to ask.
And I was listening to Mayor Lightfoot. She summed it up. We talk about systemic racism and the trauma and anxiety and all these things that are happening in our communities. And it is this convergence.
And I hate to use the word a perfect storm, but it&#8217;s where we are in this country right now. And you think about the leadership or the lack there of that we have coming from the highest office in the land. I think that you are seeing so many emotions play out.
And so, too often, it&#8217;s playing out in violence in our streets.
BALDWIN: I want to come back to this concept in the community of a perfect storm, but I do want to ask about the family first.
We know the family last night was calling on the community to work to help find who killed their daughter. Do you have an update, Mayor Bottoms, just on the search for Secoriea&#8217;s killer? Is there any progress there? And have you spoken with the family today?
BOTTOMS: I have not spoken with the family today, but we have received a number of tips. So we are encouraged by that.
There are so many peaceful people in the area and so many people who&#8217;ve been gathering in a peaceful way throughout our city over the past few weeks. So, this is &#8212; has not been received well by so many people of good conscience. And people are speaking up.
And, hopefully, we will have something more concrete soon.
BALDWIN: OK.
And then you made it clear when you were speaking last night these are folks in the same community shooting each other. And as you also point out, you cannot blame police. Why?
BOTTOMS: Well, the point that I was hoping to make, and I hope that it was received that way in the way in which I was intending, the irony of this is that this is on a site that was supposed to be a tribute to a man who was killed by police, who spoke about his daughter&#8217;s eighth birthday the next day.
He spoke about her birthday party in his encounter with a police officer. And the irony was that, in &#8212; this place of peace and what should have been a place of honor and tribute turned into deadly violence.
There were two shooters is what Secoriea&#8217;s mothers said. One shot from that parking lot of the Wendy&#8217;s, and one shot from the parking lot that she was attempting to make a U-turn in. And so it is &#8212; there are separate issues, but the result is still the same.
There is injustice and there is police brutality in America, period. But there&#8217;s also this violence that&#8217;s erupting on our streets, often between people within the same community, that is also a problem.
And to someone like Secoriea&#8217;s parents to her nearly 50 loved ones who were with us on &#8212; yesterday, the result is still the same. Somebody who they love is gone. And I think that we have to deal with both of these issues, and we can&#8217;t deal with them if we want to put our heads in the sand and act as if they don&#8217;t exist.
BALDWIN: To that point, you said this last night &#8212; quote &#8212; &#8220;During the civil rights movement, there was a common enemy. Now we&#8217;re fighting from within.&#8221;
So two questions: How do you stop that infighting, and then what or who, in your view, is that common enemy?
BOTTOMS: Well, in the civil rights movement, there was a &#8212; there was this defined objective. And that objective was to receive equal rights for all Americans, particularly African-Americans, during that time.
This movement is a very different movement. It&#8217;s a more global movement. And I think that, at this moment in time, when you have so many people interested in making change across the globe, I don&#8217;t think that it is helpful to this movement, when it is being overshadowed by violence and things and instances that are taking away from the importance of this movement.
And so I think that this enemy that we have to confront is violence. And whether it&#8217;s violence from interactions with police officers, whether it&#8217;s violence within our communities, the impact is still the same on our communities. It&#8217;s destroying our communities.
And I think that they are equally important conversations. I think that we can have the same conversation. I think we can &#8212; we have the ability to have this conversation simultaneously.
But when you have a child, an 8-year-old child who is killed just feet away from the site where we are protesting the killing of an unarmed black man, then we have got to acknowledge that we have got some layers of issues in our communities, and we have got to confront them both with the same anger and with the same sense of urgency.
BALDWIN: Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, I appreciate you speaking up and out on this. And thank you for taking the time with me.
And, of course, our condolences to Secoriea&#8217;s family. Thank you.
BOTTOMS: Thank you.</blockquote>
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NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace has landed an endorsement deal with Beats by Dre, the company announced on Monday evening. Earlier that day, President Donald Trump posted a tweet criticizing the driver over the recent &#8220;noose&#8221; incident, which Trump called a &#8220;HOAX&#8221; and for which he suggested Wallace should &#8220;apologize.&#8221;
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&#8220;We weren’t going to announce this until later this week, but hate cannot win the day,&#8221; Beats by Dre posted via Twitter, captioning a photo of Wallace in a Black Lives Matter-themed &#8220;I Can&#8217;t Breathe&#8221; t-shirt. &#8220;No one should ever be asked to apologize for standing up for what’s right — we are proud to welcome [Bubba Wallace] to the Beats by Dr. Dre family.&#8221;
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We weren’t going to announce this until later this week, but hate cannot win the day. No one should ever be asked to apologize for standing up for what’s right — we are proud to welcome <a href="https://twitter.com/BubbaWallace?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@bubbawallace</a> to the Beats by Dr. Dre family. <a href="https://t.co/HeiC76MDle">pic.twitter.com/HeiC76MDle</a>
&mdash; Beats by Dre (@beatsbydre) <a href="https://twitter.com/beatsbydre/status/1280283245465071622?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This is so dope!&#8221; Wallace responded via Twitter. &#8220;Honored to be a part of the family! If you know me, music is a strong passion of mine!&#8221;
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This is so dope! Honored to be a part of the family! If you know me, music is a strong passion of mine! 🤘🏾 <a href="https://t.co/vw1ZYz1pCW">https://t.co/vw1ZYz1pCW</a>
&mdash; Bubba Wallace (@BubbaWallace) <a href="https://twitter.com/BubbaWallace/status/1280284178517549059?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Wallace made headlines last month after his team reported an alleged &#8220;noose&#8221; in the driver&#8217;s garage stall, suspecting it was a racist hate crime against the black athlete.
However, the &#8220;noose&#8221; turned out to be a garage pull &#8220;fashioned like a noose&#8221; that had been used in the stall long before the garage was assigned to Wallace, according to the FBI.
The Beats by Dre endorsement announcement was apparently announced earlier than planned due to President Trump tweeting about the NASCAR driver.
“Has [Bubba Wallace] apologized to all of those great NASCAR drivers [and] officials who came to his aid, stood by his side, [and] were willing to sacrifice everything for him, only to find out that the whole thing was just another HOAX?” Trump posted on Twitter on Monday. “That [and] Flag decision has caused lowest ratings EVER!” he added in an apparent reference to NASCAR’s decision to ban Confederate flags.
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Has <a href="https://twitter.com/BubbaWallace?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BubbaWallace</a> apologized to all of those great NASCAR drivers &amp; officials who came to his aid, stood by his side, &amp; were willing to sacrifice everything for him, only to find out that the whole thing was just another HOAX? That &amp; Flag decision has caused lowest ratings EVER!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1280117571874951170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Wallace has since expressed relief that the &#8220;noose&#8221; was not what he feared it was and has thanked NASCAR for their overwhelming support.
Initially, the famed driver expressed frustration over response to the FBI findings, joining left-wing host Don Lemon on CNN airwaves to complain about the &#8220;straight up noose&#8221; and the public&#8217;s response.
“None of the allegations of being a hoax will break me or tear me down,” Wallace told Lemon, as noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bubba-wallace-doesnt-matter-if-we-provide-100-facts">The Daily Wire</a>. “Will it piss me off? Absolutely. But that only fuels the competitive drive in me to shut everybody up, to get back out on the race track next weekend in Pocono, and showcase what I can do behind the wheel. Tremendous amounts of BS, whatever it is that you want to say, you won’t break me, you won’t tear me down. Again, I will still stand proud of where I’m at.”
“I have been racing all my life. We have raced out of hundreds of garages. They never had garage pulls like that,” the driver continued. “People that call it a garage pull and put out videos and photos of knots being in as their evidence, go ahead. But from the evidence that we have, that I have. It’s a straight up noose.”
“The FBI has stated that it was a noose, over and over again,” said Wallace. “NASCAR leadership has stated it was a noose. I can confirm that. I actually got evidence of what was hanging in my garage over my car, to confirm that it was a noose.”
The next day, Wallace released a statement in a more conciliatory and &#8220;relieved&#8221; tone than his Lemon appearance.
“It’s been an emotional few days,” said the driver. “First off, I want to say how relieved I am that the investigation revealed that this wasn’t what we feared it was.”
“I want to thank my team, NASCAR and the FBI for acting swiftly and treating this as a real threat,” Wallace wrote. “I think we’ll gladly take a little embarrassment over what the alternatives could have been.&#8221;
“Make no mistake,” he added, “though some will try, this should not detract from the show of unity we had on Monday, and the progress we’ve made as a sport to become a more welcoming environment for all.”
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The latest monument to come under fire by the Left is one that they’ll probably need more than a chain and a small band of vandals to pull down. Mount Rushmore, a symbol of “<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/native-americans-mount-rushmore-symbol-broken-treaties-white/story?id=71594501">white domination</a>” and “<a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/sordid-history-mount-rushmore-180960446/">white supremacy</a>” — and, even worse now, the site of a President Trump speech — must be, as a recent New York Times article put it, “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/us/mount-rushmore.html">reconsidered</a>.”
Oglala Sioux President Julian Bear Runner believes the monument <a href="https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/25/mount-rushmore-oglala-sioux-president-removal-president-trump/3198922001/">should</a> “come down” but not via explosives. Blowing up giant 60-foot faces carved into the side of a mountain would, Bear Runner concedes, probably cause a bit more damage than whatever kind of unspecified damage is caused by their continued presence. Maybe we can just put a giant tarp over it. Or — here’s a better idea — to each sculpture we can affix a really big version of one of those gag glasses with noses and funny mustaches. 
But the most interesting part of the belated Mount Rushmore backlash is the <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1279848604233019394">repeated claim</a> that we must repent of the monument and somehow remove it because it was built on “stolen” land. Senator Tammy Duckworth also echoed this theme over the weekend, <a href="https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1279813001315520513">pronouncing</a> the land &#8220;stolen&#8221; from &#8220;Native Americans,&#8221; who acquired it &#8220;during a treaty.&#8221; As so many woke Leftists tend to do, Duckwork speaks of Native Americans as if they were one homogenous and unified group. Americans stole from “Native Americans,” generally, she says. Which is like saying the British “stole land from Asians” when they occupied India. No, they were taking from Indians, not the Chinese or the Vietnamese, and the distinction is important. Indeed, Leftists would usually be the first to claim that it is racist to erase or minimize such distinctions. 
Yet there is a reason why the “we stole land” crowd is hesitant to get specific on the matter of who we stole the land from. The problem is helpfully illustrated by <a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/rushmore-sioux/">this PBS article</a>, which says the Black Hills were appropriated from the Lakota Sioux, who were “the original occupants of the area.” But the Lakota were the original occupants of the Black Hills in the same way that I was the first person to experience human flight when I took a plane from Baltimore to Charlotte in March. That is to say, I wasn&#8217;t. And they weren’t. Not by a long shot. 
There has been a human presence in the Black Hills <a href="https://www.travelsouthdakota.com/trip-ideas/story/ancient-art">since prehistoric times</a>. From that era until the U.S. “stole” it, many groups of people fought, often quite brutally, for control of the region. <a href="https://www.legendsofamerica.com/sd-blackhills/">Slightly more recently</a>, the Arikara tribe moved in around the time that Columbus first sailed the ocean blue. The Cheyenne, Kiowa, Crow, and other tribes all arrived in short order to fight for their own share of the coveted mountain range. Finally, the Lakota — the alleged “original occupants” — came in the 18th century, drove all of their competitors away, and established control. It’s worth noting that, for Indian tribes, “driving competitors away” often meant violence and pillaging.
The U.S. did not take the Black Hills from its original occupants. The original occupants had long since been exiled or exterminated by other Native American tribes, who received the same treatment from the next tribe, who received it from the next, and so on. Rather, it would be more accurate to say that the U.S. took the Black Hills from the most recent tribe that had taken it from the tribe that had most recently taken it before them. This is not mere pedantry. The point is that white settlers and pioneers, by trying to claim and conquer new land, were not introducing some new horror to the continent. They were playing the same game of conquest that Indian tribes had been playing — that all people, everywhere, had been playing — since the dawn of human civilization.
It is simply absurd to treat the “theft” of land by Europeans and Americans as a unique evil for which we must repent and take down our monuments in shame. Wars of conquest had been waged in this part of the world for thousands of years before any white man graced these shores. Slavery, torture killings, rape, pillage — all of these were common features of Indian conflict. The white man jumped into that fray, he didn&#8217;t invent it. This is just how the world worked, long before air conditioning and Taco Bell and Twitter accounts. 
And we certainly cannot say that white people were unique in their barbarism. Such claims are rendered absurd by even a cursory study of tribes like the Comanche, who were known to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2396760/How-Comanche-Indians-butchered-babies-roasted-enemies-alive.html">torture babies and roast captives alive</a>; or the Iriquois, who committed a campaign of <a href="https://www.lermuseum.org/new-france-1600-1730/1600-1649/iroquois-offensive-and-the-destruction-of-the-huron-1647-1649">extermination against the Huron</a> over a century before the United States was founded. As SC Gwynn explains in his book “Empire of the Summer Moon,” many Indian tribes in North America were brutal and warlike. And that is to say nothing of the Mesoamerican tribes, like the Aztecs and the Maya, who engaged in human sacrifice on a scale that is almost impossible to fathom. Archeologists are <a href="https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/feeding-gods-hundreds-skulls-reveal-massive-scale-human-sacrifice-aztec-capital#:~:text=Human%20sacrifice%20occupied%20a%20particularly,and%20the%20world%20would%20end">stll uncovering</a> the endless and towering racks of skulls where the dismembered heads of the butchered victims were kept.
This doesn&#8217;t excuse the many acts of brutality committed by the Spanish, or any other group of Europeans or Americans during the 400-year clash of civilizations between the white man and the Indian, but it does underscore the need for historical context. It was a harsh and violent age, and the world was being tamed and settled by harsh and violent men. We should be thankful that we have the luxury to feel squeamish about it now.
Much has been said about the historical sins of white westerners. We have been confronting their sins for years now, and I&#8217;m sure the confrontation will continue for a while yet. But if this confrontation occurs in a vacuum, without taking into consideration the context of the time, or the brutality of the foes the westerners faced, then we will be left with the impression that white people today are the descendants of history’s great villains, and that nothing they did was justified, let alone admirable or worthy of celebration. And fostering this mistaken impression is, of course, the point. But those of us interested in truth and fairness should not go along with it. 
More from Matt Walsh: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-our-country-is-finally-realizing-that-its-simply-not-okay-for-actors-to-pretend-to-be-something-they-arent">Our Country Is Finally Realizing That It’s Simply Not Okay For Actors To Pretend To Be Something They Aren’t</a>

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Tragedy has struck again in Seattle after a man plowed his car into two protesters who were part of group calling itself the Black Femme March that was blocking a freeway as part of the ongoing social justice protests in the area. One of the protesters, Summer Taylor, a white 24-year-old veterinary clinic worker, has died. The man driving the car, identified as Dawit Kelete, a black 27-year-old former Washington State University student, has been arrested. Washington State Patrol has since announced that they will no longer allow protests on the interstate and will arrest anyone who attempts to stage one.
The tragic incident was caught on video, which shows the vehicle driving at a high speed into the crowd of protesters and sending Taylor and the other protester, Diaz Love, a 32-year-old from Portland, flying into the air. Police say their initial investigation indicates that drugs and alcohol were not a factor.
According to authorities, the tragic incident occurred on Interstate 5 at around 1:40 a.m. on Saturday morning. As reported by <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/protester-dies-struck-speeding-car-black-lives-matter/story?id=71617592&amp;cid=social_twitter_abcn">ABC News</a>, surveillance footage shows a white 2013 Jaguar driving at a high speed down the protester-blocked freeway, which the driver had reportedly entered by going the wrong way on an exit ramp. The vehicle swerves around cars blocking the lanes and plows directly into two protesters, sending them flying into the air, both landing violently on the pavement.
Kelete reportedly continued to drive for about a mile before another vehicle, driven by a protester, forced him to pull over. According to court documents, officers described Kelete as &#8220;reserved and sullen when he was arrested,&#8221; <a href="https://abc7.com/dawit-kelete-seattle-protesters-hit-by-car-summer-taylor-diaz-love/6299313/">ABC 7 </a>reports. He also reportedly asked if the two protesters were okay.
&#8220;Very candidly, we don&#8217;t know, at this point in the investigation, what the motive was, what the reasoning was,&#8221; said Washington State Patrol Capt. Ron Mead at a news conference hours later, as reported by ABC. According to the preliminary investigation, the driver does not appear to have been under the influence of drugs or alcohol, police said.
ABC7 reports that Kelete is listed in public records as having attended Washington State University between 2011 and 2017, majoring in business and commerce. <a href="https://heavy.com/news/2020/07/dawit-kelete/">Heavy</a> notes that the jail booking described Kelete as &#8220;black,&#8221; having worked for DoorDash in 2015-2016, and &#8220;lists his language skills as including Tigrinya,&#8221; a language spoken in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia.
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan (D) announced details of the ultimately fatal incident Saturday morning on Twitter.
&#8220;Early this morning two women were hit by a car and very seriously injured while peacefully protesting. Many others were almost hit and witnessed this horrific event. Our city stands beside their friends, families and loved ones in praying for these women and all who were there,&#8221; Durkan <a href="https://twitter.com/MayorJenny/status/1279452751382974464">announced</a> early Saturday. &#8220;No one should risk their life for demanding better from our city, state and country,&#8221; added Durkan, who has repeatedly defended the protests, even when things turned violent in the area of the city she allowed to be occupied for weeks. &#8220;Washington State Patrol is leading the investigation and they have assured us they are quickly and thoroughly investigating the incident. I have offered any city resources needed.&#8221;
On Sunday, Durkan responded to the tragic news that Taylor had died of her injuries. &#8220;My thoughts are with Summer Taylor, and their family and loved ones,&#8221; the mayor tweeted. &#8220;It is a life tragically lost far too soon, but their legacy will be the real change they marched for.&#8221;
Former Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (CA) also took to Twitter to lament Taylor&#8217;s death. &#8220;Absolutely heartbreaking. Summer Taylor was only 24-years-old, peacefully protesting for Black Lives Matter when they were struck by a car,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;Thinking of their family during this difficult time and everyone in the movement today.&#8221;
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Absolutely heartbreaking. Summer Taylor was only 24-years-old, peacefully protesting for Black Lives Matter when they were struck by a car. Thinking of their family during this difficult time and everyone in the movement today. <a href="https://t.co/i7hqkjSSMH">pic.twitter.com/i7hqkjSSMH</a>
&mdash; Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1279759914261504000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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After the tragic incident, Washington State Patrol announced that they will no longer be allowing protesters to enter I-5 and will be arresting anyone who tries to walk on the interstate. &#8220;For the safety of all citizens including protesters and motorists, pedestrians walking on the freeway will be arrested,&#8221; the department tweeted late Saturday.
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/wastatepatrol?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@wastatepatrol</a> will not be allowing protesters to enter I-5. For the safety of all citizens including protesters and motorists, pedestrians walking on the freeway will be arrested. <a href="https://twitter.com/wspd2pio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@wspd2pio</a>
&mdash; WA State Patrol (@wastatepatrol) <a href="https://twitter.com/wastatepatrol/status/1279605784821694466?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Protester Fatally Struck By Car After ‘Black Femme March’ Blocks Freeway; Driver Arrested, Identified

On Thursday, former NFL star Burgess Owens ripped into the football league over reports that the NFL will play “Lift Ev’ry Voice And Sing,” dubbed the “Black national anthem,&#8221; before all Week 1 games this season.
The retired safety suggested the move was in line with &#8220;trying&#8221; to &#8220;segregate&#8221; the nation &#8220;again.&#8221;
&#8220;There is no &#8216;black national anthem,'&#8221; Owens posted via Twitter. &#8220;Why does it feel like the country is trying to segregate again sometimes?&#8221;
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There is no &quot;black national anthem&quot;. Why does it feel like the country is trying to segregate again sometimes?
&mdash; Burgess Owens (@BurgessOwens) <a href="https://twitter.com/BurgessOwens/status/1278867288582582273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Owens, an outspoken critic of the Left, <a href="https://twitter.com/BurgessOwens/status/1278385393596055556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1278385393596055556%7Ctwgr%5E&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbleacherreport.com%2Farticles%2F2898485-ex-raiders-jets-safety-burgess-owens-wins-republican-primary-for-us-house-seat">won</a> a Republican primary for a U.S. House of Representatives seat in Utah&#8217;s fourth congressional district the day before his NFL swipe.
An <a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29401000/nfl-plans-play-black-national-anthem-week-1-games">ESPN</a> report published Thursday said the &#8220;Black national anthem&#8221; “is expected to be performed live or played before every Week 1 NFL game, and the league is considering a variety of other measures during the upcoming season to recognize victims of police brutality,&#8221; according to a source at The Undefeated.
Additionally, the NFL pledged $250 million in donations for “social justice” causes over the next ten years.
The recent moves by the league come after the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who died in late-May after an arrest captured on viral video showed an officer, who has since been charged with second-degree murder, holding his knee on Floyd’s neck for over eight minutes.
Black Lives Matter and Antifa protests over the death quickly morphed into rioting, looting, and the destruction of statues of historical figures across the nation.
Owens was not the only one to criticize the NFL&#8217;s reported move.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), for example, blasted the league: &#8220;How many national anthems do we have?? Is there an Hispanic national anthem? An Asian-American national anthem? This is asinine. We are ONE America. E Pluribus Unum.&#8221;
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How many national anthems do we have??
Is there an Hispanic national anthem?
An Asian-American national anthem?
This is asinine. We are ONE America. E Pluribus Unum. <a href="https://t.co/nv0djWREnH">https://t.co/nv0djWREnH</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1278880487331770369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I didn’t know there were two national anthems— a white and black national anthem,&#8221; commented conservative author and TV host Mark Levin. &#8220;No matter.&#8221;
&#8220;The NFL can screw itself,&#8221; he added.
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I didn’t know there were two national anthems— a white and black national anthem.  No matter.  The NFL can screw itself.<a href="https://t.co/KUnUdEsHIH">https://t.co/KUnUdEsHIH</a>
&mdash; Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) <a href="https://twitter.com/marklevinshow/status/1278827184866693120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 2, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In recent years, the national anthem has inexplicably become a partisan issue.
Then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began kneeling during the anthem before games back in 2016, claiming law enforcement, and America more broadly, was plagued by racism. Now-Nike sponsored Kaepernick, who began the anthem protest when he started to see little field time, claimed America was “oppressing” minorities and allowing cops to “murder” innocent people of color.
As noted by <a href="https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2898485-ex-raiders-jets-safety-burgess-owens-wins-republican-primary-for-us-house-seat">Bleacher Report</a>, Owens is set to challenge incumbent Democratic Rep. Ben McAdams of Utah in November, following his primary win.
Owens, 68, &#8220;spent 10 seasons in the NFL,&#8221; the report added. &#8220;Seven of those years came with the New York Jets, and he ended his career with the Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders. He was a member of the Raiders team in 1980 that went on to beat the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl XV.&#8221;
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In response to protests and riots that left sections of the city in flames, the progressive leadership of Minneapolis has taken steps to defund the police department and replace it with a &#8220;transformative new model for cultivating safety&#8221; in the city. But some influential voices from the black community in the city are pushing back hard on how the city council is driving forward with their &#8220;absurd&#8221; and &#8220;egregious&#8221;  dismantlement plan.
On June 12, the Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously to pass a resolution to replace the Minneapolis Police Department with a “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/minneapolis-city-council-unanimously-passes-resolution-to-replace-police-department-with-community-led-public-safety-system">community-led public safety system</a>&#8221; that will involve &#8220;healers, elders, youth, artists, and organizers,&#8221; who will &#8220;lead deep community engagement on race and public safety&#8221; and will offer &#8220;transformative justice in partnerships informed by the needs of every block in our city.&#8221;
Last Friday, the city council voted unanimously in approval of an amendment that would eliminate the city&#8217;s charter requirement to fund a police department, replacing it with their new &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/minneapolis-city-council-oks-charter-amendment-to-cut-police-some-of-them-now-get-private-security-after-threats">Department of Community Safety and Violence Prevention</a>,&#8221; which would be managed by the council and headed up by a &#8220;non-law enforcement experience in community safety services, including but not limited to public health and/or restorative justice approaches.&#8221; The council also voted to remove the minimum number of officers required for their &#8220;transformative new model for cultivating safety.&#8221; The moves will allow the issue to be put to voters in November.
But, as reported by the <a href="https://www.startribune.com/some-minneapolis-black-leaders-speak-out-against-city-council-s-moves-to-defund-police/571594012/?refresh=true">Star Tribune</a>, several leaders in the black community are incensed by how the Democrat-controlled city council has proceeded with its &#8220;defund the police&#8221; plan (h/t <a href="https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2020/07/02/black-leaders-minneapolis-city-council-dismantling-police-egregious-grotesque-absurd-crazy-ridiculous-maybe-racist/">Ed Morrissey</a>).
&#8220;Egregious, grotesque, absurd, crazy, ridiculous. These are a handful of the words that some local African American leaders are using to rebuke the Minneapolis City Council’s moves toward dismantling the Police Department, even as they demand an overhaul of law enforcement,&#8221; the Tribune reported Thursday. &#8220;While the movement to defund the police has been driven by Black activists, others say that city politicians rushed the process and failed to include a police chief who has the backing of many Black residents.&#8221;
One of the black leaders, the former president of the NAACP Minneapolis, accused the city council of showing &#8220;a complete disregard for the voices and perspectives of many members of the African American community.&#8221;
&#8220;We have not been consulted as the city makes its decisions, even though our community is the one most heavily impacted by both police violence and community violence,&#8221; said former NAACP leader Nekima Levy Armstrong, as reported by the Tribune. Armstrong went on to accuse the council of &#8220;seizing upon the national spotlight to look as if they’re making a difference.&#8221;
Pastor Brian Herron leveled a similar accusation, saying the council was simply &#8220;pandering,&#8221; according to the Tribune.
Of particular concern is the city council&#8217;s mandate that a person with &#8220;non-law enforcement experience&#8221; must head up its new public safety department, as the current chief of police is African American.
“Why now, when you have an African American chief who is highly regarded and trusted in the Black community?” Urban League Twin Cities CEO Steven Belton asked. “This strikes me as being passive-aggressive Minnesota Nice on steroids. This is a hit on Chief Arradondo.”
Council Member Jeremiah Ellison defended the council&#8217;s actions and appeared to try to downplay the significance of the black leaders voicing complaints, saying, “The Black community is not a monolith, and just because there’s someone that might have a high profile doesn’t meant that they necessarily speak on behalf of the Black community of Minneapolis.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/de-blasio-calls-nyc-city-hall-protests-vile-but-wont-break-up-autonomous-zone">De Blasio Calls NYC City Hall Protests ‘Vile’ But Won’t Break Up ‘Autonomous Zone’</a>
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